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35 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is most likely to lead to an intracerebral hemorrhage?
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an aneurysm
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The amygdala appears to be involved in the ____ component of memory, whereas the cerebellum appears to be involved in the ____ component
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emotional; sensorimotor ES
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Transgenic Alzheimer's mice display all of the following characteristics of AD EXCEPT
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neurofibriallary tangels
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In retrospect, the major reason for the initial difficultiy in developin an animal model of human medial temporal lobe amnesia was that efforts focused on
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both A and C
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The mumps and herpes simplex viruses are common examples of
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viruses that do not have a particular affinity for brain tissue
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Hippocampla lesions in rats reliablity disrupt the performance of tasks that involve memory for
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spatial location
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KC the man who could not time travel, experience a severe deficit in _____ memory
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episodic
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The tree phases of energy metabloism are, in sequence
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cephalic, absorptive, and fasting (CAF)
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The word "mad hatter" originally referred to people suffering from
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mercury poisioning
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The brain operation performed on HM is called
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bilateral medial temporal lobectory BMTL
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Glucostatic theory is to lipostatic theory as
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Short term is to long term regulation (only one starting with short term)
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Who is more likely to develop multiple sclerosis
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a female Caucasian
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most of the body's energy reserves are stored in the form of
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fat
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According to the dominant hypothalamic theory of eating in the 50s and 60s, hunger is to satiety as the
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LH is to the VMH
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Contustions
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Both B and C
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In humans, ____ agonists have been shown to reduce hunger, eating and body weight
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serotonin
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Which type of tumor is likely to be benign?
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encapsulated
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Brain damage following ischemic strokes seems to be cause by
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excessive glutamate release
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In the brains of Alzheimers patients the level of ______ is greatly reduced
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Acetylcholine (think AA)
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The ability to refrain from visiting an arm of the radial arm maze more than once on a given test is a measure of _____ memory
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working
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Rat experiments on the effects of the medial-temporal-lobe lesions on delayed nonmatching....
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rhinal cortex (think rats and rhinos_
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Animals learn to
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both BC
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Set point theories of hunger and eating are incosistent with
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all of these
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Which of the following does NOT influence the positive incentive value of food
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internal energy deficiencies
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Settling-point models of body weight regualtion
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all of these
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With respect to epilepsy, clonus is to tonus as
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tremor is to regidity
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parkinsons disease is associated with degeration of the
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substantia nigra
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The main evidence that release from inhibition is a mechanism of neural reorganization after brain damate is that reorganization can
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occur very quickly
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Drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease have involved
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cholinergic agnosits
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Insulin promotes all of th efollowign EXCEPT
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stimulates the conversion of fatty acids to ketones
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Which structure is thought to store memories for visual images
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inferotemporal cortex
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After the axon of a standard multipolar neuron is cut, the cell body sometimes degenerates. This is called _______ degeneration
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retrograde
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The two major categories of seizures are
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generalized and partial
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Tremor at rest, muscular rigidity, slowness of movement and a masklike face are symptoms of
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Parkinson's disease
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The study of which of the following amnesic subjects seemed to provide strong evidence of the involvement of the hippocampus in memory?
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RB
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